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Prophecies Relating to the future Reftoration of the Jews to their own Land, and to the setting up the Kingdom of the Meffiah.

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GEN. xvij. 1-8.

ND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thon perfect.

2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

3. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, faying,

4. As for me behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5. Neither fall thy name any more be called Abram; but thy name fhall be Abraham, for a father of many nations have I made

thee.

6. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall come out of thee.

7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant ; to be a God unto thee, and thy feed after thee,

8. And I will give unto thee, and to thy feed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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DEUT. XXX. 1-10.

ND it fall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curfe, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

2. And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and fhalt obey his voice, according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy foul:

3. That

3. That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compaffion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath fcattered thee.

4. If any of thine be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will be fetch thee.

5. And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers poffeffed, and thou shalt poffefs it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6. And the Lord thy God will circumcife thine heart, and the heart of thy feed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, that thou mayest live.

7. And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which perfecuted thee.

8. And thou shalt return, and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

9. And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy land for good: for the Lord will again rejoyce over thee for good, as he rejoyced over thy fathers;

10. If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments,and his statutes which are written in this book. of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul.

Is A. iv. 2.

2. In that day fhall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth fhall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Ifrael.

CHAP. Vj. 13.

in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall But yet 13. be eaten as a teil-tree, and as an oak whofe fubstance is in them, when they caft their leaves: fo the holy feed fhall be the substance thereof.

CHAP. xj. 11-16.

11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall

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fet his hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of his · people which shall be left, from Affyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the fea.

12. And he shall fet up an enfign for the nations, and shall affemble the outcafts of Ifrael, and gather together the difperfed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth.

13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversa.. ries of Judah fhall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah fall not vex Ephraim.

14. But they fhall flie upon the fhoulders of the Philistines toward the west, they shall spoil them of the east together: they fall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon fhall obey them.

15. And the Lord shall utterly deftroy the tongue of the Egyptian fea, and with his mighty wind fhall be shake his hand over the river, and fall fmite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dry-fhod.

16. And there fall be a high-way for the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Affyria, like as it was to Ifrael in the day that be came up out of the land of Egypt.

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CHAP. Xij. 1–6.

ND in that day thou shalt fay, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou waft angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedft me.

2. Behold God is my falvation: I will truft, and not be afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my fong» be alfo is become my falvation.

3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of fal

vation.

4. And in that day shall ye fay, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

5. Sing unto the Lord: for he hath done excellent things: this

is known in all the earth.

6. Cry out and fhout thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy One of Ifrael in the midst of thes.

CHAP.

CHAP. XXIV. 23.

23. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the fun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerufalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

CHA P. XXV. I—12.

Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praife thy name; for thou haft done wonderful things; thy counfels of old are faith ulness and truth.

2.. For thou haft made of a city, an heap: of a defenced city, a ruine: a palace of strangers, to be no city, it shall never built.

3. Therefore fall the strong people glorifie thee, the city of the terrible nations fall fear thee.

4. For thou hast been a ftrength to the poor, a ftrength to the needy in his diftrefs, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones fhall be brought low.

6. And in this mountain fball the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feaft of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of vines on the lees well refined.

7. And he will defroy in this mountain the face of the covering caft over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

8. He will fwallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people fhall be take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

9. And it fhall be faid in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will fave us: this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad, and rejoice in his falvation.

10. For in this mountain fall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab fhall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghil.

11. And he fall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as be that fwinemeth Spreadeth forth his hands to fwim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12. And

12. And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

CHAP. xxvij. 6, 12, 13.

6. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Ifrael fall bloffom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

12. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye Jhall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Ifrael.

13. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumper Shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Affyria, and the outcafts of the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerufalem.

CHAP. XL. 9,—II,

9. O Zion that bringeft good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain: O Jerufalem, that bringeft good tidings, lift up thy voice with ftrength: lift it up, be not afraid: fay unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.

10. Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm fhall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

11. He fall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead thofe that are with young.

CHAP. XLiij. 1,—7. ·

B he that formed thee, I have called thee by thy name, then art

UT now thus faith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and

mine.

2. When thou paffeft through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt; neither fall the flame kindle upon thee.

3. For Iam the Lord thy God, the holy one of Ifracl, thy Javiour: Igave Egypt for thy ranfom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4. Since thon waft precioas in my fight, thou hast been honour

able,